Reflector



PATENT OFFICE,`

WILLIAM WHEELER, OF CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

REFLECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,064, dated November 28, 1882.

` Application filed February 13, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM WHEELER, of

`Concord, in the county of Middlesex, of the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Parabolic or other Light-Reectors; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following'specifcation and represented in the accompanying drawing, which is a longitudinal section of a reflector containing my invention, which has reference to means of confining in the metallic shell or body of the reflector a series of reflectin g-plates ot' glass.

In carrying out my invention l affix to the metallic shell or body A of a retlector a series of fiexile U-shaped connections, B, each of which I usually make ofa narrow strip or fillet of soft metalsuch as lead, for instancesuch connection being folded lengthwise at its middle, and at its-vertex fastened to the inner surface of the shell by solder or other proper means. On the glass reflecting-plates b being placed in the shell and arranged between their connections, the free portions ofthe latter are to be turned or bent over upon the said plates in manner as shown, so as to secure them in place in the shell. These connections, being of a soft or flexile or readily-yielding material` such as lead, for instancecan easily be turned down upon the reflecting glass plates and caused to thoroughly t lto them along their edges. ln case ot' breakage of a plate, it can easily be removed and another substituted.

I do not claim broadly a reflector-shell provided with means of liXing glass reflectingplates Within and to it, whether such being ask represented and described in eitherl of the United States patents numbered 73,355, 155,-

085, and 229,212, as each of the connections I employ for the fixation ofthe reflecting-plates in the shell is U-shaped in its transverse section, or is a metallic strip folded lengthwise at its middle and there secured to the shell by solder applied to such middle and to the shell, the same affording a very cheap and advantageous mode of securing the plates to the shell; but

What I do claim as my improvement is As an improved manufacture, a light-refector having combined with its shell a series of leaden or metallic strips folded lengthwise along their middles, and there secured to the shell by solder, and having their free parts bent over upon glass or other reflecting-plates applied to them and such shell, all being substantially as set forth.

` WILLIAM 'VHEELER. Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

